MacOS Catalina & Big Sur break a lot of stuff, due to the new permission mechanisms, which work in tandem with Linux file permissions, but go beyond them. (If you know anything about Android, they have a similar problem with their 'SELinux' permission structure; many people give up and turn off SELinux completely.) Sometimes going to the security & privacy section and giving the failing app permission to read/write files may work. (The app still can't go around the normal Linux file permissions.) For example, Big Sur broke Emacs, so I had to Google around until I found a fix which involved giving Emacs more permissions. At 08:03 AM 11/20/2020, James Propp wrote:
The problem affects dvipdf on my new MacBook running Catalina 10.15.7 but not my old MacBook running High Sierra 10.13.6.
Jim Propp
On Fri, Nov 20, 2020 at 10:49 AM James Propp <jamespropp@gmail.com> wrote:
Has anyone else been having problems lately with dvipdf?
My install of dvipdf now converts a multi-page dvi file with actual content into a one-page file containing nothing but white space.
I tried it on a file that compiled properly back in May, and it's not working now.
I reinstalled TexShop and restarted my laptop, but that didn't fix the issue.
(I am trying to do the final upload for an article I've been working on for seven years. So of course something like this would happen...)
Jim Propp